CHAPTER III
“I have been thinking and thinking,” said Rosanna, “and not an idea have I had until just now. Here is what I just thought up.
“You know Uncle Bob was telling me about benefit performances that actors and musicians have. I think they get them up themselves mostly, when they want some money, but I was talking to Minnie about it yesterday when she came in for a minute and she says in her church they have benefits all the time. People sing and play and recite poetry, and it is lovely. And I thought up something better still.
“What if you and I, Helen, could make up a sort of play all about the Girl Scouts and give it?”
“Write it out of our heads?” said Helen, quite aghast.
“Yes,” said Rosanna. “It is easy. Before grandmother used to let me have little girls to play with, I used to make up plays, oh lots of times!”
“With conversations?” pressed Helen.
“Yes, made up of conversations and coming on the stage and going off again, and people dying, and everything.”